Have you ever played Broomball? It's a sport played running on ice with your shoes on and a stick with a wedge on the end similar to a broom. We've got a league with 80 teams in it at my school(Boston University) and it's a great game.

Yeah it's awesome. My skating is nowhere near the level it would be needed to play ice hockey, so this is the closest I can get

Wow. Even for only 10 games that's not good. It makes me happy though, because he's in the Hawks division. If Ovechkin is still going at 94 over Bucyk, Firsov, and D. Bentley, then I expect Weber will still go around round 14.

completely disagree , the chances of sliding on foot compared to on skate on the ice are way bigger.

It's hard to explain the physic in words , but on skate your leg won't completely slide violently out of control in any direction , on foot it could definitely happen , especially if you're running or making quick movement.When the ground is full of ice on the street many people broke their leg that way , I never heard of anybody breaking their leg by just skating , sure with contact and the boards it could happen but not because of just being on the ice skating.

(Take note that I'm talking about people who have at least basic skating skills , I don't know about the people who can't skate , I can't even remember living without knowing how to skate).

The most dangerous thing with skating is when your blade get stucks in a small hole.This is really bad for the knee involved and can be very painful.

completely disagree , the chances of sliding on foot compared to on skate on the ice are way bigger.

It's hard to explain the physic in words , but on skate your leg won't completely slide violently out of control in any direction , on foot it could definitely happen , especially if you're running or making quick movement.When the ground is full of ice on the street many people broke their leg that way , I never heard of anybody breaking their leg by just skating , sure with contact and the boards it could happen but not because of just being on the ice skating.

(Take note that I'm talking about people who have at least basic skating skills , I don't know about the people who can't skate , I can't even remember living without knowing how to skate).

The most dangerous thing with skating is when your blade get stucks in a small hole.This is really bad for the knee involved and can be very painful.

Does anyone here watch the show TopGear? (the UK version, obviously). Clarkson and co. took quite a break last year, but all three episodes of Season 19 have been amazing IMHO.

I don't. but I'm curious what guy's favorites are. Mine are Portlandia, Doctor Who, and I have a feeling I'm really going to like this upcoming show Orphan Black.

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Orphan Black follows outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon Sarah. After witnessing a woman's suicide, Sarah assumes the strangers identity - who happens to look just like her. Expecting to solve all her problems by cleaning out the dead woman's savings, Sarah is instead thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery as she realizes the dizzying truth - she and the dead woman are clones. As Sarah searches for answers, she discovers the chilling fact that there are more people like her out there - genetically identical individuals who were planted in unsuspecting birth parents and nurtured in completely different circumstances. With no idea who created the clones, she'll need to discover the reason in a hurry as an assassin is killing them one by one.

It's probably originates from one of the "intimidation" coaches like Shero.

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The Columbus Blue Jackets hurried to make history. Just more than 24 hours after firing Scott Howson, they announced the hiring of Jarmo Kekalainen of Finland as the first European to be a general manager in the National Hockey League. Kekalainen, director of amateur scouting with the St. Louis Blues 2002-10, held a news conference Wednesday in his native Finland at the same time the Blue Jackets Blue Jackets held theirs in Ohio. ''One of my dreams since I hung up my skates has been to be a GM of an NHL team sometime. Now that dream has come true,'' Kekalainen said in Helsinki at the home arena of the Jokerit club, where he's been GM since 2010. ''I'm really happy and pleased, even proud, that I've been give this chance.''

Yea, it just happened to be Cooke and it just happened to be the best player on the other team.

Like....did you even watch it? Go on TSN, watch the clip, watch someone with hockey intelligence (Aaron Ward in this scenario) talk about how that play happens literally dozens of times a game, and it was just a fluke accident.

This isn't directed towards you particularly Hobnobs, but just generally at everyone: can we just have a modicum of sense of how FAST that play happened? It's a bang-bang type of reaction where his leg just rode up Karlsson's as he tried to get him into the boards. There's no way that Cooke meant to do it. Let alone the fact that Cooke is literally looking the other way as it happens.

Like....did you even watch it? Go on TSN, watch the clip, watch someone with hockey intelligence (Aaron Ward in this scenario) talk about how that play happens literally dozens of times a game, and it was just a fluke accident.

This isn't directed towards you particularly Hobnobs, but just generally at everyone: can we just have a modicum of sense of how FAST that play happened? It's a bang-bang type of reaction where his leg just rode up Karlsson's as he tried to get him into the boards. There's no way that Cooke meant to do it. Let alone the fact that Cooke is literally looking the other way as it happens.

We both watched it. Could easily have been accident but it's Cooke so I have my doubts too.

It turns up occasionally through the 1980s but almost entirely in quotes from players and coaches, not as a term that the writers are using. I noticed a pattern in that most quotes in the mid-80s were from Montreal and Philadelphia sources - Mark Howe, Mike Keenan, Bob Gainey, Chris Nilan, etc. In the late 80s you start seeing mentions from Chicago and St Louis players. Around 1992 the phrase seemed to enter the vocabulary of sportswriters - not just players and coaches - and it turns up a lot more, increasing through the 1990s.

It's hard to make judgements on frequency because more sources are available in the archives over time, but the trends are noticeable in the New York Times alone.

I expect you'd have to talk to sources inside hockey to get more detail. If you do or have heard anything more I'd be interested in hearing it.